River earth
Subtitle: a personal map
By: John C. Pierce.
Series: Northwest voices essay series
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Pullman, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Pierce, John C., 1943-; Rivers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Anecdotes.; Fly fishing -- Northwest, Pacific -- Anecdotes.; Northwest, Pacific -- Biography.; Jeru Creek Region (Idaho) -- Biography.
Description: "River Earth is a personal exploration of family and community in and around the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. In these poignant essays, John Pierce probes the lifelong impact of a teenage boy's loss of a father, and how it led his own sons to a life on the river. He lifts the covers from the seeming tranquility of north Idaho's woods to reveal the personal impact of a friend's fear of racial violence.

His mother's heroic lingering death forces him to confront who he is - while in the midst of a relationship that had lain dormant. Nighttime visits by Johnny Cash, two-foot long fish that don't exist, and a son who hears music in his head while wandering along Jeru Creek all enliven and enrich this moving yet humorous book."--BOOK JACKET.